perl DateTime packaging question

[Ville Skyttä]

On Wednesday 28 May 2008, Patrice Dumas wrote:
> On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 04:45:02PM -0400, David Mansfield wrote:
> > In this case, DateTime, DateTime-TimeZone and DateTime-Locale are all
> > part of perl-DateTime, but they are different CPAN  'entities' with
> > different release schedules, tarballs, authors etc.
> >
> > Is this just an issue of packager discretion?
>
> It is, although shipping different packages in one (with different
> release schedules, tarballs, authors etc.) is bad practice. Normally
> this is raised during reviews, but not here.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/167376

Said the submitter:
"This package is a bit odd.  To avoid circular dependencies, I've bundled 
DateTime, DateTime::Locale, and DateTime::TimeZone."